On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Sanesh Bodasing wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I need to be able to HOT SWAP a secondary IDE Harddrive on our NetBSD 1.4.1 / i386 systems. We have software that will de-energise the solenoid holding the drive and release the address and data lines and power.
> What I am not sure about is how to inform the operating system that the drive needs to be de-initialised and to initialise the new drive once we have restored power and the address and data lines in software ...
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Look at the wdc_pcmcia front-end. It can detach and reattach IDE devices.

Hum, I can't remember if it did in 1.4.1 ...

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